Waterboarding redux..

The folks over at the Justice Department are possibly going to release an unclassified version of an upcoming report “that its internal ethics office was investigating the department’s legal approval for waterboarding of Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency”.

Now, I don’t know about you..but I really want to read that report. A Justice department group with the totally ironic name of Office of Professional Responsibility released the statement above. This merry band of Bushies, according to the NYT article linked above, “was the first official acknowledgment of an internal review of the legal memorandums the department has issued since 2002 that authorized waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods.

Mr. Jarrett’s report could become the first public accounting for legal advice that endorsed methods widely denounced as torture by human rights groups and legal authorities. His office can refer matters for criminal prosecution; legal experts said the most likely outcome was a public critique of the legal opinions on interrogation, noting that Mr. Jarrett had the power to reprimand or to seek the disbarment of current or former Justice Department lawyers“.

I am not holding my breath however that anything will come of this little investigation and its subsequent report. The word “can” always has a way of signaling hope that will eventually be dashed on the rocks when nothing is done to correct the problems that were dug up.

For the rest of the hope-filled writeup..check out the NYT article linked above.